Francis, Bill; Hasan, Iftekhar; Park, Jong Chool; Wu, Qiang - Suomen Pankki - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of CFO gender on corporate financial reporting decision-making. Focusing on firms that experience changes of CFO from male to female, the paper compares the firms’ degree of accounting conservatism between pre- and post-transition periods. We find that female...